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OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GEIiEMUHTEEEST Events Occurring Throughout the Stats Curing the Past Week. - 1 1 I 1 ! Z f . GEORGE STALL1NGS BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Contour Survey Nearly Finished. Eugene. A United State geologi cal surveying party, composed of nine men. under J. Q. Staaks. arrived at Ridgon ranch, on the upper Willam ette river, BO miles east of here, this veet, where they have established the last camp on a large topographical survey project They expect to com plete the mapping of what is known as the Diamond Lake quadrangle by November 15. The party has been at work all summer, having left Rose lurg, In Douglas county, early in the spring. Contour lines are being run, show ing all streams, ranges, mountains. loads and trails, including both artlfl- elal and natural features. j!? c zy - r $ i -1 k V Jack Grant Champion Baby of Oregon Salem. With an almost perfect score, Jack Grant, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Grant, or Dallas, was awarded a gold medal for being the finest baby entered In the eugenics contest at the state fair. Doris Lee Gordon, daugh ter of L J. Gordon, of Portland, won, the girl baby first prlie, scoring traction ot a point less than the Grant child. George Stalling, manager of the Boston Braves, winner of the Na tional League pennant. BRIEF WAR NEWS PAPER MILLS COMBINE of Hew Company Ha Capitalization $13,000,000. Portland. For the purpose of ducing operating expenses by elimina tion ot duplication In fixed charges, the pulp and paper interests control ling the Crown-Columbia Paper com pany and the Willamette Pulp & Pa per company have perfected a consol ttatlon Involving a capitalization of 113,000,000 and will hereafter operate voder the corporate name of Crown Willamette Paper company. All prop erties of the two companies located in Oregon, Washington and California will be taken into the combination. It is understood that a majority of the stockholders In the two concerns have ratified the plan and that the new com pany will be organized as a Maine cor poration. It is declared that additional new capital will be brought into the busi ness and enable the consolidation to make extensive Improvements which iave been in contemplation for some ,time. The Crown-Columbia Paper company las a large modern plant at Camas, Wash., said to have the finest equip ment of any paper mill in the world. R has a capacity of 175 tons a day. It manufactures print paper, paper bags and tissue paper. It has an auxiliary plant for making wrapping paper at Oregon City, pulp mills at Warren dale, Or., and a large wrapping paper and tissue paper establishment at Floriston, Cal., where the chief out put is tissue paper wrappers for fruit The chief plant of the Willamette Pulp fc Paper company is located at Oregon City, with a capacity of 200 teas of print paper a day. The com lined capacity of the various mills in volved in the deal is about 450 tons a day. W. C. T. U. Ends 3-Day Session. The Dalles. The 31st annual con vention et the Oregon Women's Chris tian Temperance Union came to a close In this city after a three-day ses sion. The following new officers were elected: President Mrs. Jennie Kemp, Portland; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mary Russell, McMinnvllle; re cording secretary, Mrs. Madge Mears, Shedd, and treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Houston, Portland. PORTLAND HAS RECALL Mayor Albee, Commissioners Dieck and Brewster Accused. Portland. Recall petitions, bear ing approximately 9800 names, were tiled with City Auditor Barbur against Mayor Albee and City Commissioners Dieck and Brewster. They were filed By a committee comprising M. E. Gib son, C. W. Hohlt and A. C. Allen, which committee has headed the re call movement, which has been under way for about two months. B. E. Kennedy, a real estate man, is the recall candidate for mayor; W. A. Leet, an attorney, is candidate against Commissioner Brewster and H. E. AJiry, an employe of the United States Engineer department, is candidate against Commissioner Dieck. Under the provisions of the recall amendment the officers are given five days in which to resign. After that the city auditor is obliged to call a special election within 20 days. Mayor AUiee and Commissioner Dieck both announced that they would not resign. Commissioner Brewster is out of the city. This means that the election will be held unless legal complications set in. French and German reports agree that the third week ot the battle ot the Aisne closed without decisive ad vantage to either side, and from all appearances there must be more hard fighting before either side give way. The western wing of the allies con tinued its efforts to outflank the Ger mans under Von Kluck, resulting In the allies' lines being extended to within 30 miles of the Belgian fron tier. The Germans, with the aid ot heavy reinforcements from other sec tions ot the battle line, stubbornly resisted the flanking movements ot the allies and blocked their efforts. Continuous conflicting claims of success have confused the operations during the week along the western battle front In France. These have arisen from the two directions in which the fighting progressed. The allies had before them the double ob jective of moving their army to the north, toward Belgium, and at the same time forcing von Kluck's and von Boehm's united efforts to the east away from their chief line of com munication. The French and British have suc ceeded In the first ot these offensives during the week, but In the second they have consistently tailed. Hence, both sides have made rightful use ot laconic optimism in their omcial re ports. The more important ot the week's successes was Sermany s, since It Is of the most vital importance that ber railways be safely guarded. The al lies, while advancing to the north. have been shoved farther to the west, which means a greater distance sep arates them from the German com munications with the end of the week than did the beginning. High ability has been demonstrated by the Germans In remoulding their southern and eastern battle fronts to answer the west's call tor reinforce ments. Gains reported by the French along the eastern Franco-German frontier are undoubtedly due to the withdraw al of the German troops tor Ton Kluck's and von Boehm's support There is no reason for believing them important The past week has seen all other operations subordinated to the struggle along the German right and it is becoming more and more apparent that the vicinity of the Bel gian frontier will see the decisive conflict In the Alsne campaign. Russia has checked her Galiclan ad vance during the week and very prop erly exhibits greater caution as her armies approach Cracow and the Ger man boundary. The comparatively simple strategy of the Galiclan cam paign Is being encroached upon by the far more complicated plans of the march to Berlin. The armies are fighting along a tremendous line, extending from the neighborhood of Craopw, in Gallcla, along the frontiers of Poland and east Prussia, almost to the Baltic sea. The Germans and Austrlans, instead ot waiting on the line between Cracow, Czestchowa and Kallsc for the Rus sians, have advanced farther into Po land. Their outposts have been re ported as far east as Plctrko (90 miles southwest of Warsaw), In the north, and Stopnica (32 miles south south east of Kielce) in the south. The German attack on Antwerp continues. The defenders on the east have been compelled to fall back be fore the violence ot the German ar tillery. The Belgians say they have a strong position on the Netbe and will resist to the full extent of their powers. The opinion prevails in London that the Germans do not Intend, at present, to make a serious attempt to besiege Antwerp, and that the attack they have made is for the purpose of keep ing the Belgians within the fortress and stopping sorties, which were dis concerting to the Germans. Bonds In the sum of $30,000 tor public improvements of Ontario have been subscribed by two Imtks of that city. Labor Commissioner Hoff bus noti fied logslns companies that they must install logging bunks on car by Jan uary 1. A throe mllo electric railroad con necting Cilendtile and Tsiltoos hike Is planned by capitalists ot the Siuslaw section. Work of grading has boon resumed by the Willamette "aclflc railroad nenr Springfield, and trains are haul ing gravel. Portland now is one of tho five $1,- 000,000 postal savings banks In the United States. The milllou mark wa passed Saturday. A petition calling for an election on the liquor issue has been sinned by the wets at Granada. At present Lane county Is dry. Thousands ot tacks were scattered on the Btreets ot Roseburg In order to annoy drivers ot automobiles, and police are searching for the guilty ones. A bounty of 25 cents a head having been offered tor all animals killed. the farmers in numerous district In Polk county are waging war on go phers. Eric Anderson has been appointed postmaster at Pleasant Home, vice L. A. Shineman, resigned, and Carrie R. Otley has been appointed at Sum ner, vice E. O. Hall, deceased. Professor Lewis, of the Oregon Ag ricultural college, advises Oregon fruit growers to use extreme care to select only the best grades of fruit for ship ment outside, keeping only the poorer grades at borne. The beautiful new $160,000 court house at The Dalles, of which Wasco county is proud and which Is the fin est county government borne In Ore gon outside of Portland, was formally opened Saturday. An order permitting the Rogue River Water company to Increase Its rates about 3 per cent was Issued by the state railroad commission. Rates fixed by the city were declared by the commission to be unjust Portland contractors, Boyajohn-Ar-nold, have commenced work on the new administration building for the university of Oregon, and It Is expect ed that the building will be completed within seven and a half months. More than 25,000,000 salmon eggs have been taken for hatching pur poses so far this year by the state game and fish department according to R. E. Clanton, state hatchery sup erintendent This marks the year as a record breaker. The third crop of alfalfa Is now be ing cut on many of the ranches In the vicinity of Baker, where condi tions have been better for large hay crops than In many years. Tbe third crop is proving to be almost as large as tbe first and second. Tbe best state fair In the history of Oregon, from the standpoint of ex hibits, came to a close Saturday at Salem. Because of rain two days, the attendance was not so large as last year, but It was sufficient it is be lieved, for the proceeds to meet all expenses. Secretary Lane has notified Senator Chamberlain that he has designated as non-Irrigable more than 1,000,000 acres of land In Oregon. Persons hav ing entries of 160 acres within the designated area may apply to enlarge their homesteads to 320 acres by tak ing up designated vacant land adjoin ing their present entries. All records for attendance at Crater Lake national park were broken in tbe season of 1914. In 1913 the travel to September 27 totaled 5826 people and in 1914 the total September 27 was 6947. During the season of 1913 only 760 automobiles visited the park and this year up to September 27, 1252 had visited the park. The Fort Vannoy (Elsmann) or chard of 85 acres, four miles down the Rogue river from Grants Pass, was sold to J. P. Peurrung, of Cincin nati, O., the consideration being $150,- 000. The orchard consists of 10 acres of peach trees, four acres of pears, 30 of young apples and 35 ot older apples in full bearing. Five thousand men will be put to work through tbe resumption of con struction ot government projects al ready under way in the first and sec ond Oregon districts. In addition to the 2000 men which the government will employ on its own plants, thu Columbia contract and other sub-con tractors will, it is estimated, employ 2000 more. Figures gathered from the govern ment engineer's records show that Coos Bay has been making a good showing in its commerce. During the first six months of the year 1914 tbe total incoming tonnage over the bar was 28,111 tons. The total outgoing was 222,396 tons. If as much is ship ped the last six months this year as there was shipped the first six months, there would be a total for the year of 436,000 tons as compared to a total of 39,085 tons ot lumber products shipped in 1913, or an Increase of 10 per cent. 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Famous Ranier Beer in Bottles and on Draft Lower Prices on FordCars Buyers to Share in Profits Effective from Augunt 1, 1914, to August 1, 1915, and guaranteed against any reduction during that time: Touring Car $490 Runbout 440 Town Car 690 F. O, B. Detroit, all cars fully equipped. (In the United States only). For further particulars regarding'the low prices and profit-sharing plan see C. W. WILSON 1-15 Crook County Agent, Prineville, Ore. Garage Opposite Post Office r The Brosius Bar 1 Finest Brands of Wines, II i Liquors and Cigars. I LAGER BEER ON DRAUGHT ' jj !F. E. BROSIUS, Proprietor Jj A BANK BOOK overtops almost everything in importance in business life. It means freedom from worry, freedom from disputes about payments, better standing with those with whom you do business. We shall be glad to have your account and you will be glad to have one here after you learn its advantages. The First National Bank Of Prineville, Oregon. The Oldest Bank in Central Oregon Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $150,000.00 Shinglflfl. Mouldings, Windows, Doors, Glasses, Etc Etc., Etc SHIPP & PERRY PRINEVILLE, OREGON